While working on the annotations today for A Christmas Carol I got to thinking specifcially about how much in text goes over the mind. When you read a text so many times your mind goes at a spead that if you brush over a word that is not fully familiar to you it does not phase your reading. The activity we did today allowed us to individually slowly analyze the text and grab further context on the victorian era. I felt that looking through the annotations made my peers I was so much more informed on certain phrases and meaning. What I appreciated about looking through the illustrations is the way in which the tone is portrayed in each scene despite the lack of technology. You would think because of the lack of tecnological advancement the pictures would lack the elements that todays illustrations have but there is so much detail that the wood engravings that make them very complementary to the text. For example the last wood illustration in stave 5 manages to carry a brighteness within in even though it is black and white and engraved on a wooden block. Also in stave 4 the illustration in which Scrooge is on his knees before his own grave , it is engraved  with detail that gives it such a dark and serious tone that you can feel the heaviness of the moment.